CEO Steven Kolb Apologized and Took Leave After a Fashion Week Clash. Experts Say That May Not Be Enough

The CFDA CEO’s physical restraint of PETA protesters at a runway show exposed organizational failures.

BY CLARISSA CRUZ @CLARISSANYC1

Steven Kolb. Photo: Getty Images

Fashion industry execs tend to be a pretty restrained lot, leaving the drama largely to the creatives and, you know, the actual clothes. But at a runway show for Swedish fashion brand COS in New York on September 13, with the likes of Michelle Williams, Lupita Nyong’o, and Dominic Sessa in attendance, Steven Kolb, CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the industry trade group that organizes New York Fashion Week, stunned onlookers when he reacted to animal rights protesters who disrupted the show.

In a video posted by Fashionista, Kolb restrains two........

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